Example sentences of "to [noun] [v-ing] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next moment the waiter came back to Harvey carrying a little cake with twenty-six candles — all alight — he put it down in front of Harvey and Harvey sang — quite loudly all by himself — Harvey sang ‘ Happy Birthday to Me ’ all through . |
| 2 | For Moffatt , with a good winning streak behind him , it is an unexpected but welcome return to action following a lengthy lay-off with a facial injury . |
| 3 | Menzies and Fleming will never forget that two hours riding backwards , with every soul from Dull to Aberfeldy having a good look at their humiliation . ’ |
| 4 | There is an extensive and rapidly growing literature on the tectonics of plate interiors , but unfortunately much of it is written from a geophysical rather than a geomorphic perspective and it is not readily accessible to readers lacking a good grounding in physics and maths . |
| 5 | I go out all day to college having a lovely time while you stay at home making yourself ill . |
| 6 | The key to the telephone revolution is a development which can link telephone exchanges to computers running a widely-used software system called UNIX . |
| 7 | As we have seen , this applies to industrial relations issues such as pay determination , and to matters having a major bearing on industrial relations , such as restructuring and rationalization plans . |
| 8 | The union had repeated that workers were prepared to return to work using an agreed formula to resolve a grievance over lay-offs but that a return to work would involve workers pursuing individual contractual rights . |
| 9 | This same recipe provides an instructive example of the way in which Dr de Pomiane thinks we should go to work improving a primitive dish to our own taste while preserving its character intact . |
| 10 | In general the use of hardware timing is restricted to applications requiring a modest increase in the operating speed above the normal starting/stopping rate . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , this opportunity ( see also paragraph below ) no longer applies to individuals joining a new scheme after 13 March 1989 ; or an existing scheme after 1 June 1989 . |
| 12 | I regret to say that in consequence of the contents having been packed before they were thoroughly dry they are all in a badly mildewed state , so much so that I shall have to dry each specimen individually and remove the mildew with a brush : the smallest of the two large skins has also lost the whole of the wool or hair from the head ; The bottles too not having been properly secured , the spirit has escaped and caused the small boxes to fall to pieces forming an heterogenous mixture of nests , eggs broken and sound , tops , bottoms , and sides of boxes , plants , etc . |
| 13 | Later that day — the 26th — Hitler was still in command of his mental state sufficiently to send a telegram to Mussolini demanding a precise list of what he needed , but after that he almost snapped . |
| 14 | Today , The Test And County Cricket Board 's disciplinary committee at Edgbaston were told of the events which lead to Stemp providing a positive sample during a match with Middlesex at Uxbridge in July . |
| 15 | Peat cutting became a major industry in the Lancashire mosses in the nineteenth century , and on maps of Wicken Fen and Hatfield Chase , you will find ‘ Poor Piece ’ , which was where the local cottagers could cut peat for themselves , subject to regulations prescribing a limited season for peat cutting and insisting that a man may extract as much peat as he can , provided he does not employ assistance . |
| 16 | On March 31 it was reported that US Secretary of State James Baker had sent a letter to Savimbi demanding a full explanation of the charges made by N'Zau Puna and Fernandes . |
| 17 | Four of the Night Owls Swimming Club , based at Templemore Avenue Pool , were having a ‘ splashing ’ time before heading off on a club trip to Donaghadee following a successful fund raising effort recently which brought in over £1 , for a local charity . |
| 18 | Central Wales & Staffordshire Junction Railway ( from Catchen 's Corner ) Junction with the Stour Valley Railway , south of Wolverhampton and the Oxford , Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway , south of Dudley to the Severn Valley Railway at Bridgnorth and on to the Knighton Railway beyond Craven Arms ; with branches to Swindon from the line from Dudley south of Trysull , a branch to Burton and Wenlock Edge ; another to Bromfield making a south-facing junction with Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway and a north-facing junction to the proposed Bishop 's Castle Railway via a spur at Craven Arms . |
| 19 | A WOMAN waiting for surgery has reacted angrily to figures showing a massive reduction in the number of people waiting more than two years for hospital treatment . |
| 20 | Alan McLeary 's proposed £400,000 transfer to Wimbledon following a six-match loan period has been called off because Dons manager Joe Kinnear has been told he must sell first . |
| 21 | In addition it was expected to increase the supply of emergency food aid passing across the Ethiopian border into Sudan , to regions facing a severe threat of mass starvation , and to refugees camps around the Sudanese capital , Khartoum , where refugee numbers were swollen by the influx from drought-ridden and war-torn rural areas . |
| 22 | Ken Stewart , MEP for Merseyside East , has met EC commissioners and has been told that German and French objections to Merseyside gaining a large slice of the European structural fund are no longer a problem . |
| 23 | So I drove to Portsmouth expecting a great camel of the ocean , a small luxury liner even , at least a boat that could hold its head up in the seafaring world . |
| 24 | The Daemonettes appear to characters failing an Int test as attractive members of the opposite sex of their own race ; a successful WP test is required to resist their charms . |
| 25 | They also introduced stickers to be attached to envelopes featuring a naked lady sitting cross-legged in a bed of flowers , a small heart covering her genitalia , with the inscription ‘ Love , not disease . ’ |
| 26 | Yesterday the Bundesbank drained funds in the German money markets pushing rates up to levels suggesting a full point increase in the Discount and Lombard rates , which stand at 5 per cent and 7 per cent respectively . |
| 27 | Murray 's Just Jeremy , on which she led the dressage section from Thomson by less than half a point , has only recently returned to competition following a lengthy lay-off after an operation to cure a breathing problem . |
| 28 | A consultancy service offering 10 per cent discount to members requiring an in-depth study into the area of energy conservation within their organisation . |
| 29 | However the cause is not simply too many Eurocrats in Brussels , directors of the commission are often sensible and come in general terms to Britain suggesting a simple way of dealing with the problem . |
| 30 | Even Admiral Hyman Rickover , father and all-powerful master of the US Navy 's nuclear programme , who had hitherto blocked all Anglo-American collaboration in nuclear submarine development and had a well-known contempt for all things British , agreed not only to Britain purchasing an American reactor for her first nuclear submarine , Dreadnought , but also for the reactor to be the most recent second-generation version , thus saving Britain valuable time and development costs . |